Polymath scientist- archaeologist- artist- writer- rancher Joe Hutto blew through the other day after running down to Catron County, on his way to home in Wyoming via the Carolinas. He brought us a beautiful dark Late Pleistocene mammoth tooth he had retrieved from the black waters of the Auscilla River on the border of Florida …
Tag: Books
Ideas for Change?
This past year has been a tough one economically, mostly because of the sorry state of mainstream publishing. If the story ever gets resolved for the better (which it probably will) I’ll tell it all here. Suffice to say that it fulfills every dire statement that Michael Blowhard ever made about the business. For now, …
New Links
Blogging will continue to be a bit light as I am busy, am trying to get outside, and have Chas and Miss M coming tomorrow. But the world keeps producing the fascinating and the maddening… Science fiction giant Arthur Clarke died this week. John Derbyshire has a good quirky remembrance of him here. I think …
Falcon and the Snowjob
Relating to the recent pics of GWB hanging out in the Saudi weathering yard, Anne found this post by “BWildered” at the liberal blogsite Daily Kos: “Were you, like me, treated to an Abu Dhabi photo-op? Abu Dhabi royals introducing George W Bush to the arts and sciences of falconry. Where are the sharp-eyed falcons …
New Links Plus
Sorry– my latest excuse is back problems. Sitting down for the better part of a year writing a difficult book is bad for your back– duh! But I have been accumulating links and going out with the hounds and taming the Gos (he is actually very nice) so…. “I tell you, Watson, the Giant Rat …
What Remains
Or “Culling II”. I find the specificity of (very diverse) categories left in what I must call my “nature” section fascinating. Before there was so much stuff in there that it would have been hard to see categories beyond that vague term. Maybe negative as in “not too much botany or herpetology” though both exist …
Culling the Library
In a recent discussion with Chas he spoke of culling his library and I recoiled in horror. I do so in an ongoing context, and I thought there was no need to do any more. Then one restless and sleepless night I was prowling my library and realized that there was a corner I had …
Bookplate
Reid has been after me to do this one for ages. Let’s see: here is a slice of bookcase (yes, Carel, you are in there too). Take out that black one in the center. There it is: See the bookplate? Let’s zoom in. Can you read it? When I found it in a store in …
Greener Guns and Books
The first William Greener started an English gunmaking dynasty that still lives on. (English guns at least have not yet declined and fallen, though affording a new one can be difficult). I own one of Greener’s products, a 10- bore Damascus duck gun from the 1880’s, still in service. (I got it from the vaults …
Around The Web
This has to be the most… original… variation on the fish/ Darwin/ whatever sticker I have seen yet. HT Doc Hypercube for the site. I’m sorry, but I can’t warm to control freaks, especially ones that are known to freak out about people owning animals (ferrets in one case I know). This is Rudy in …